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You're in "the situation room". ♪ this is cnn breaking news. we're following breaking news. president trump going to new extremes in his border wall demand 14 days into the partial government shutdown. tonight he's warning the standoff could last for months or even years. if doesn't get his way, mr. trump says he could go around congress and get the wall built by simply declaring a national emergency. the president speaking to reporters after talks with congressional leaders and democrats called contentious. neither side is backing down as 800,000 federal workers aren't getting paid. als...

Just within the last hour saying he never abandoned this concrete wall. even as the president's friends and allies have been doing their level best to give this president something of an acceptable off ramp, some way to end this government shutdown without having to make it look as if he's caving in on his border wall demand, the president is actually putting us back at square one saying, no, i want this concrete wall. here's why. this border wall is an existential issue for president trump. this wall really provided the core connection to his base. that was the call and response all during th...

President trump shows no signs of backing down over funding for his border wall demand, insisting yesterday in iraq the american people want it. take a listen. >> look, the american people public is demanding a wall. nancy is calling the shots, and they all know, look, politically speaking, i'm going to do it for politics. i'm doing nothing for politics. but politically speaking, people want border security. >> joining us now to discuss, the former press secretary for bernie sanders' 2016 campaign and the former head of president trump's hispanic advisory counc council. the president saying th...

His stance. he has said he'll come down from his border wall demand. he's also said that he doesn't necessarily need to have a concrete wall built at the border. as long as democrats agree to some kind of barrier in an agreement that would then be used to fund the government. democrats believe they have all the leverage here, that the longer this runs out, the better it is for them because then a couple days from now, january 3rd, you'll have house speaker designate nancy pelosi reopen the government. they're saying no dice. >> listen, this is not the first government shutdown that we've seen,...

Or when congressional leaders will find their way through the stalemate. this morning americans are waking up to a federal government that's partially shut down. with congress at an impasse over president trump's $5 billion border wall demand. congress already approved funding for about 75% of the government, but about a dozen major agencies are dark this morning. during the shutdown, at least 800,000 government employees will not receive their expected paychecks with christmas coming fast. >> it shouldn't be that i have to worry about getting paid. >> depending how rough it is, we may not hav...